Solidarity as Spiritual Practice / 6. The Second Dislocation -- Internment of Community Religious Leaders -- Public Sentiment Turns against Japanese Americans -- Gathering Before Exile -- Sanctuaries for Family Treasures -- The Chest / Satsuki Ina. Spiritual Responses to the Impending Dislocation -- The Sunday Before: Japanese American Christians Prepare for Exile -- Righteous Rage / Naomi Hirahara -- Buddhists Answer the Call -- A Principled Stance against Injustice -- Gordon K. Hirabayashi and the Sustaining Influence of Faith / Jay Hirabayashi -- Dislocation as Practice -- The Empty Hands / Brandon Shimoda -- 2. Resilience -- Sacred Space for Religious Gatherings -- An Exile with No Clear Ending -- Marking Sacred Time: Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring -- Sustaining Religious Life -- Crafting Ritual Implements -- Butsudan: Recreating Home and Family Practice in the Barracks / Jane Naomi Iwamura -- The Figure of Compassion -- Remembering the Unknown / George Tanabe -- Anchoring Faith -- Remembering My Grandfather: Inklings and Revelations / Gail Y. Okawa -- Constructing the Cosmos -- The Aso Obutsudan: A Heart Mountain Buddhist Altar / Togo Nishiura -- Guard Towers in the Pure Land -- Devotion and Resilience through the Shibata Family Obutsudan / Candice Shibata -- Flexibility and Strength: Shinto and the Martial Arts -- The Tule Lake Kamidana / Nancy Kyoko Oda -- Each Stitch a Prayer -- 3. Sutra and Bible -- The Mystery of the Buried Sutra -- Unearthing the Heart Mountain Sutra Stones -- Recollecting the Scattered Stones -- Wyoming Regards a Sutra / Dakota Russell -- The Word Carries On: Bibles in Camp -- The Kitaji Bibles: The Gospel in Two Languages -- The Man Behind the Bibles / Laura (Kitaji) Dominguez-Yon -- Saving the Kitaji Bibles -- Not for Sale / Nancy Ukai -- 4. Remembrance -- Irei: Remembering the Spirits of the Dead -- Honoring the War Dead -- The Amache Memorial -- Remembering Strength and Resilience / Mitch Homma -- Memorial Tablets for Nisei Soldiers -- The Heartbeat of a Soldier-Ancestor / Wendy Egyoku Nakao -- Chaplains and the 100th/442nd Regimental Combat Team -- Dog Tags and Religious Affiliation -- Sutra Lost in Dog Tags / Gene Oishi -- Faith Etched in Steel / Mikoto Yoshida -- 5. Solidarity -- Pre-Incarceration Support for Japanese Americans -- Ronald Lane Latimer and Azalia / Emma Peet -- The Work of Solidarity: Convert Buddhist Priests -- Sunya Pratt and Julius Goldwater / Michihiro Ama -- The Work of Solidarity: Catholic and Mainline Protestant Clergy -- Father Hugh Lavery / Jonathan Van Harmelen -- The Blue Box / Brooks Andrews -- Quaker Support for Japanese Americans -- American Friends Service Committee: Solidarity in Action / Anne M. Blankenship -- We Were So Alone, Except for the Quakers / Karen Tei Yamashita -- Religious Cooperation in Midwest Resettlement -- Interfaith Belonging for a Displaced Community / Todd Tsuchiya -- Returning to Pacific Coast Racism: Religious Hostels as Temporary Shelters -- Sanctuary: A Room at the Hostel / Kristen Hayashi -- Guardian Angels in the Midst of Incarceration / Mark M. Nakagawa -- Senshin Buddhist Church Hostel / Masao Kodani -- 6. Reparation -- Pilgrimage as Spiritual Repair -- The Cross / Joanne Doimm -- The Movement for Redress and Reparations -- Repairing the Racial Karma of a Nation -- Bunyu Fujimura and Kyoshiro Tokunaga -- Interlinked Histories and the Ongoing Work of Repair -- Solidarity as Spiritual Practice / Satsuki Ina.
Summary:
Accompanying the Japanese American National Museum's 2022 eponymous exhibition, Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration explores the role that religious teachings, practices and communities played while Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II. From the confines of concentration camps and locales under martial law to the battlegrounds of Europe, Japanese Americans drew on their faith to survive forced removal, indefinite incarceration, unjust deportation, family separation, military service and resettlement at a time when their race and religion were seen as threats to national security. Coedited by Emily Anderson and Duncan Ryuken Williams, Sutra and Bible weaves visual storytelling with auxiliary essays from 32 prominent voices across academic, arts and social justice communities. Exhibition: Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, USA (05.02.-22.09.2022).
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.